96 words come out when you unscramble PISTOL, starting with PISTOL itself: 8 in Scrabble, 10 in Words With Friends. PISTOL has 3 anagrams here, PILOTS, POSTIL and SPOILT, scoring 8 like PISTOL itself. The best shorter words score 7: 11 of them, PILOT, SPLIT and PLOTS included. 6 letters: 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from PISTOL by length: 4 with 6 letters, 12 with 5, 35 with 4, 30 with 3 and 15 with 2.
Of the 35 4-letter words from PISTOL, 21 score 6 points, the group's best. LIST, POST and TIPS are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of PISTOL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with PI · ending in OL · all 6-letter words
What PISTOL means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. PISTOL is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PISTOL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 96) | 87 | 96 | 81 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: POSTIL, POLTS, POLT, IOS, ISO, LOS, OIS, IO and ST, 9 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: LIPOS, LIPO, POS, PST, PO and OI, 6 in all.
These 12 words take every letter of PISTOL plus a single extra one.